Madame Butterfly (film), 461, 487, 493
Magnin, Rabbi, 191, 232, 235-38
Mamoulian, Rouben, 353, 359
Malibu, 178, 296-98, 303-9, 311-16, 384, 491
Mankiewicz, Herman (“Mank”), 261, 347, 358, 436-37, 487
Mankiewicz, Sarah, 296, 355
Mannheimer, Al (Maurice Rapf s cousin), 470-72, 473-74, 491
Mannix, Eddie, 377, 380
March, Freddie, 177, 359, 364, 366, 428-29
Marion, Frances (writer), 17
Marx Brothers, 239, 436-37, 461
Marx, Zeppo, 260, 262, 436
Maupassant, Guy de, 199, 360
Mayer, Irene, 115, 296. See also Selznick, Irene
Mayer, L. B. (Louis), 25, 90, 93, 100, 114-17, 121-23, 145, 147-50, 154-55, 215-17, 292, 377, 381, 406, 439-40, 483-86
Mayer, Margaret, 295-96, 382, 484-85
Mayer-Schulberg Studio, 114, 117, 125, 136
Méliès, George (magician), 12, 15
Melville, Herman, 189, 358, 403
Menjou, Adolphe, 207, 318
Merry Widow, The, 154, 215-18
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. See MGM
Mexico, 151, 335-42, 491
MGM, 115, 118, 146-47, 154, 206-7, 213, 380, 397, 483
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 168, 420
Monkey Business, 436, 441
Morrison, Marion Marshall. See Wayne, John
Motion Picture Patents Company, 29, 30, 33-34, 38-39, 117. See also Film Trust
Murray, Mae, 51, 212, 215-17
N.A.A.C.P., 418-21, 425, 437, 449
Nabokov, Vladimir, 9, 23
Negri, Pola, 195-96
Neilan, Mickey (Marshall), 18, 51, 93, 145-46, 149, 153, 156, 259, 468-69
Nettles (pigeon breeder), 321, 325
New York, 4, 5, 6, 9, 14, 22, 27, 33, 38, 39, 43, 73, 103, 107, 109, 125, 139, 158, 163, 191, 279, 390-94, 395-403, 405, 453, 457
New York Mail, The, 6, 22
New York Times, The, 184 (excerpted), 221, 274
Normand, Mabel, 150
Novarro, Ramon, 147, 207, 212
Oakie, Jack (stage name), 366-67, 492
O’Fearna, Sean Aloysius. See Ford, John
Offield, Lewis D. See Oakie, Jack
Old Ironsides (film), 318-19
Olympic Games, 475-78
O’Neill, James (actor), 30, 31
Palmer, Stuart (writer), 481, 492
Paramount Pictures, 25, 40, 71-78, 86, 188, 195-96, 239, 268, 276, 319, 357-59, 365, 368, 370, 376-77, 381-82, 392, 397, 428, 430, 433, 439, 443, 463, 475, 486
Parsons, Louella O., 17, 126, 183, 291, 430
Photoplay, 81, 195
Pickford, Mary (stage name), 8, 18, 31, 36-38, 43, 46, 48-51, 58, 64, 73-74, 76-77, 81, 95-97, 101, 195
Pigeon racing, 321-27, 492
Pinsker (Adeline Schulberg’s uncle), 9-10
Plastic Age, The, 159, 160-63, 165, 169
Porter, Edwin S., 11-18, 20-21, 23, 25, 28-31, 35, 36, 38, 39-41
Powers, Pat, 62-63
Preferred Pictures, 100-101, 113, 121, 134, 138, 188
Queen Elizabeth (film), 31-33, 34
Quid, The. See Boyden, Frank
Racism, 46-47, 131, 204-5, 282-83, 417-21, 425, 437
Rapf, Grandmother (Harry Rapf’s mother), 205-6, 238
Rapf, Harry, 149, 204, 205-6, 306, 380-81
Rapf, Maurice, 149, 204-8, 210-13, 223-27, 231-38, 252-53, 317-19, 321-27, 360-61, 407, 465-66, 470-72, 491, 492-93
Rapf, Tima, 205-6
Ray, Mutt (Deerfield student), 410-11, 412-13, 441-42
RCA, 397, 443, 444, 460
Reeves, Arch (Paramount publicity), 357, 378, 379
Rice Elmer (writer), 401-2
RKO, 397, 444, 481-82
Roche, Joe (writer), 22-23
Rogers St. John, Adela 311-13
Rogers St. John, Elaine, 313, 464
Roland, Gilbert, 160, 168
Roosevelt, Franklin, D., 424, 460
Roosevelt, Theodore, 117-18
Rugg, Elaine (author’s friend), 472-74, 492
Russia, 4, 9-10, 61, 64-65, 115, 406, 421-25
Santa Fe Chief (train), 83-86, 113, 140, 141, 145, 259, 307, 433, 450, 455
Schulberg, Adeline (mother), 4, 6, 8, 9, 21-23, 44-48, 53-55, 73, 75, 77, 86-87, 92-94, 99-101, 107, 122-23, 137, 143-45, 166-68, 171-72, 189, 193-99, 203, 225-26, 254-55, 260, 282, 291, 295-97, 306, 350-51, 353-55, 375, 395-96, 398, 400-3, 405-6, 421-25, 438-40, 445-47, 464-65, 475, 483-90
Schulberg, B. P. (father), 6-8, 11, 14-18, 21-23, 25, 30-37, 39-40, 44-51, 53, 57-58, 61, 66-67, 72-79, 80 (excerpted), 81, 84-85, 86-87, 95-101, 103-10, 117, 119-21, 131-43, 154-55, 157-59, 166, 170-76, 181-82, 187-89, 194-99, 218-20, 227, 231-32, 244-47, 254-55, 257-58, 260-63, 265-71, 273, 306, 349-51, 353-55, 358-60, 375-78, 382-84, 427, 429-30, 432-433, 438-40, 444, 453, 458-62, 488-90, 493-94
Schulberg, Sarah (grandmother), 5, 457-58
Schulberg, Simon, 5-6, 25, 38, 116
Schulberg, Sonya (sister), 44-45, 193, 198-99, 225-26, 228, 254-55, 281, 296, 313, 374, 398, 405, 438, 446, 464, 468, 473, 487-88
Schulberg, Stuart (brother), 254-55, 313, 331, 374, 416, 464, 487-88
Scottsboro Boys, 420-21
Screen Club, The, 20-21, 22
Selig, Colonel William N., 18, 114, 116-19
Selznick, David, 61, 69, 306, 360, 396-400, 480-82
Selznick, Irene (wife of David), 396-98, 480. See also Mayer, Irene
Selznick, Lewis J., 61-69, 100, 396
Selznick, Myron (brother of David), 67-69, 396, 446-47
Sennett, Mack, 21, 90
Shadows, 132-34
Shannon, Peggy, 367
Shearer, Norma, 148, 212, 291, 318, 398
Shoulder Arms, 77-78, 203
Sidney, Sylvia, 351, 353-56, 358, 373-75, 381, 382-84, 393, 424, 431, 439, 443, 444, 459, 461, 487
Sinclair, Upton, 168, 370, 421
Skippy, 347
Smith, Gladys. See Pickford, Mary
Sound, 176-77, 224, 376
Squaw Man, The, 8, 59-60
Stalin, Joseph, 422-24
Stammering (by author), 53-55, 62, 100, 164, 317, 330-34, 411, 438
Stanton, Mrs. (U.S.C. professor), 384, 416, 492
Star is Born, A, 366
Steffens, Lincoln, 370, 406, 420, 438, 479
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 165, 248, 358-59
Stewart, Anita, 90, 93, 100, 121-22, 125
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The, 358-59, 366, 428
Swanson, Gloria, 93, 121, 259, 304, 371
Talmadge, Constance and Norma, 64
Tarbell, Eaton (Deerfield student), 411-12, 455
Tashman, Lilyan, 308-9
Taylor, Elizabeth, 130-31
Taylor, William Desmond, 90, 150
Temple B’nai B’rith, 189, 191, 232-38
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (film), 149, 153
Tess of the Storm Country, 8
Thalberg, Irving, 51, 65, 136, 138-39, 148-49, 265, 304-6, 318, 360, 380, 398
Thirty-Odd Years (B.P.’s unfinished novel), vii
Thomas, A. W. (writer), 7
Thomas, Olive (stage name), 64, 67-9
Tolstoy, Leo, 189
Trust, The. See Film Trust
Twain, Mark, 358
20th Century Limited (train), 81-83, 395, 450, 459
“Ugly” (author’s short story), 198, 273, 384, 416
Underworld. 241-42, 256, 265, 275
United Artists, 76-78, 86-87, 95-98, 100
Universal Film Manufacturing Company, 19, 62-63, 69, 92, 96
Unsell, Eve (writer), 132, 133, 188
Urban Military Academy, 202-3
Valentino, Rudolph, 51, 133
Velez, Lupe, 266, 286, 338-39
Vidor, King, 282
Viertel, Salka, 396, 400, 401
Vitagraph, 63, 100
von Sternberg, Joseph, 220, 241-44, 265, 275-79, 291, 318, 451
von Stroheim, Erich, 51, 121, 139,
149-50, 153-54, 212, 215-21
Warner Brothers, 204
Warner, Jack, 292, 360
Wayne, John (stage name), 134, 202, 365-66
Wellman, William (Wild Bill), 265-66, 269-71
West, Mae, 487
Wilkerson, Billy (publisher), 144-45, 479-80
Wilma (governess), 44-47, 188, 281-83
Wings, 236, 265-71, 275
Wolfe, Thomas, 396
Wright, William Lord (writer), 18-19
Wurtzel, Sol, 449-50, 455
Young, Clara Kimbell, 63, 69, 100
Young, Felix (producer), 305-6, 373-74, 380, 431, 443, 463
Zanuch, Darryl, 301-2
Zeidman, Benny (writer), 481-82
Zeleznick, L. J. See Selznick, L. J.
Zukor, Adolph, 8, 11, 25-34, 36-40, 43, 48-50, 57-58, 60-61, 65-69, 71-75, 98, 187-88, 270-71, 350, 357, 376, 391-92, 486
Zukor, Lottie, 32, 54
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BACKGROUND MATERIAL FOR THIS work, particularly in the early chapters, has been drawn from B. P. Schulberg’s unpublished manuscript, Thirty-Odd Years.
In the course of writing this book, the author has received invaluable editorial suggestions, at first from his late wife, Geraldine Brooks, and later from Jeanne Bernkopf, Maurice Rapf, Betsy Langman Schulberg, Alyss Dorese, and Sol Stein.
Over the years, Stan Silverman unselfishly has read and reread the manuscript with both friendly heart and critical eye, a combination that has aided and greatly encouraged its progress. The writer is also grateful to Mabel Nowark, whose magic fingers typed and retyped the manuscript around the clock, oblivious of weekends. To all the above, and to others who helped along the way—as we say in Mexico—“a thousand thank-you’s.”
—Brookside, February 1981
A Biography of Budd Schulberg
Budd Schulberg (1914–2009) was a celebrated screenwriter, novelist, playwright, and journalist best remembered for his classic novel What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) and his Academy Award–winning screenplay for On the Waterfront. Schulberg was the first major American novelist to grow up in Hollywood, a town with which he had a complex and sometimes contentious relationship.
Born Seymour Wilson Schulberg on March 27, 1914, in New York City, Schulberg and his family relocated to Los Angeles a few years later. His father, Ben “B. P.” Schulberg, became one of the most prominent movie producers in the 1920s and ’30s, so Schulberg grew up among movie stars and powerful studio executives. His mother, Adeline Jaffe, was a talent agent who later became one of the first female literary agents. Both of Schulberg’s parents valued authors and literature, and cultivated Schulberg’s literary ambitions throughout his childhood. More than acting, though, Schulberg revered boxing; his father introduced him to the sport and to some of the era’s champions. His fascination with boxing would influence much of his writing career, including his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall.
Schulberg attended Dartmouth College and graduated in 1936. He then worked in Hollywood as a writer (collaborating with F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others) while working on his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? Once it was published, the book set off shockwaves with its frank exposure of the dark side of Hollywood’s golden era. The novel angered real-life industry heads and damaged his own father’s career. Schulberg was fired from his scriptwriting job with Samuel Goldwyn and nearly blacklisted in the filmmaking business.
During World War II, Schulberg worked for the OSS, the predecessor of the CIA. In 1945, director John Ford tasked him to help assemble film evidence of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps to be used during the Nuremberg trials. This was the first time that film evidence was used in a trial to convict. He compiled footage shot by German filmmakers, including Leni Riefenstahl, who was arrested by Schulberg himself and brought to Nuremberg to help aid the prosecution.
In 1951, Schulberg was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify about his former involvement with the Communist Party. Though he had been a member of the party for six years, he had quit after a bitter disagreement with party members who wanted to vet his script for What Makes Sammy Run?. During his testimony, he identified several fellow Hollywood figures as Communists. The HUAC trials caused another rift between Schulberg and the film industry, with many feeling that his testimony betrayed friends and colleagues.
Despite this setback, Schulberg soon had his greatest film success, with his screenplay for On the Waterfront, directed by Elia Kazan. The movie, about New Jersey longshoremen whose lives are controlled by the Mob, won eight Academy Awards and also evolved into a novel (1955) and a play (1988), both written by Schulberg. He soon reunited with Kazan, turning the title story from his collection Some Faces in the Crowd (1954) into a screenplay for the influential film A Face in the Crowd (1957), which launched the career of actor Andy Griffith.
Throughout his career, Schulberg worked as a journalist and essayist, often writing about boxing, a lifelong passion. Many of his writings on the sport are collected in Sparring with Hemingway (1995) and Ringside (2006). Other highlights from Schulberg’s nonfiction career include Moving Pictures (1981), an account of his upbringing in Hollywood, and Writers in America (1973), a glimpse of some of the famous novelists he met early in his career.
Schulberg married four times and had five children. He died at his home on Long Island in 2009.
Schulberg’s parents, Adeline and B. P. Schulberg, hold an infant Budd in this early family portrait.
Schulberg and his fourth wife, Betsy Schulberg, in Westhampton Beach, New York, in 2003. © 2003 Ken Regan
Schulberg at work on his typewriter. At the top of this photo, he wrote the following note to his son: “For Benn, To a happy and productive life ahead! Love, Dad 8/14/2003.”
Schulberg’s father, B. P. Schulberg.
Origin: Culver Pictures Inc.
Schulberg, B.P. (1892-1957), American film producer and executive
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A portrait of Schulberg in 2003, with the following note to his son at the bottom: “For my dear son and best friend Benn with all my love, Dad 8/14/2003.”
The Schulberg family in Westhampton, New York. From left to right: Jessica, Budd, Betsy, and Benn.
From left to right: Schulberg, actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, Elia Kazan, and actress Myrna Loy.
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A letter from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Schulberg, praising Moving Pictures, dated September 19, 1981.
Brothers Stuart Schulberg and Budd Schulberg (from left to right) on the set of Wind Across the Everglades, a film written by Budd and produced by Stuart, in 1958.
Budd Schulberg with his second wife, Virginia Anderson, at the pool outside his eighteenth-century farmhouse, Inghamdale, near New Hope, Pennsylvania, with Schulberg’s children David, Steve, and Victoria. This photo was taken around 1949.
Schulberg with fellow members of the U.S. military, taken during World War II.
Schulberg with sons David and Steve.
Schulberg with Geraldine Brooks and pet cat at their family house on Long Island in the mid-1970s.
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